An awareness day is not a strategy,” said the State Department. The real strategy, it appears, is to roll back decades of progress.

If you’re looking for a Christmas show that calls ’em like it sees ’em—with complaining instead of caroling and more jangled nerves than jingle bells—this is the one for you.

Alberta Sydney Malcolm puts an ornament with a photo of her son’s fiancée, Stephanie Rondecker-McLaughlin, a former executive aid for the Nevada National Guard who died in 2015, on the Gold Star ...